Scientists from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Cambridge have been taking part in an experiment to optimise broad beans to increase bee visitation rates; and their findings could benefit both the beans and the bees.

Researchers from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, will be carrying out overnight sleep studies in their sleep laboratory to identify which stages of sleep and sleep-specific brain activations are critical for memory and learning.

Kate Frye (1878-1959) kept a diary from the age of nine until a few months before her death. This voluminous diary is now held in Royal Holloway's Archives. Between 1906 and 1915 Kate was actively involved in the women's suffrage campaign, first as a volunteer and then, from 1911 as a paid organizer for the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage. This illustrated talk will recount something of her life as a suffrage foot-soldier as well as drawing on her accounts of the many spectacular suffrage scenes she witnessed – such as the 'Black Friday' riot in Parliament Square (18 November 1910), Emily Wilding Davison's funeral procession through London (14 June 1913), and the riot as Mrs Pankhurst led a demonstration at the gates of Buckingham Palace on 21 May 1914. For further information please click on the link above.

Join us for an evening of chamber music presented by students from the Department of Music as members of the College's Quartet-in-Residence, The Tippett Quartet, adjudicate this year's competition. For further information please click on the link above.

The staff-student Early Music Ensemble return to showcase the flourishing of secular vocal music from the English Restoration period, from the ancestors of J S Bach following the 30 Years War, and music from Handel's sojourn in Italy that were to lay the foundations for opera. Directed this season by acclaimed countertenor and teacher, Tim Travers Brown, and international early music specialist, Stephen Rose, early instrumentalists and singers alike showcase vocal works by Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel among others. For further information please click on the link above.